Quote Originally Posted by TcomJ View Post
That's not remotely true. If it's NA, the reason MCH is lockout was purely latency issue. Even Rinchan Nau plays MCH and absolutely fine with it. Nobody locks MCH out in SB in Asia like they do now with RDM/NIN on pug PF slot right now everywhere in the world.

So you guys are basically using exclusive problem in a region to screw even JP bard playerbase.

But no worries, SE listens to JP players more anyway.
No, it wasn't because of latency. The North American servers are based in North America, not in Japan. It was because Bards brought way more value to the raid than Machinists did.

And I honestly see no reason why pug groups would pick up Summoners but not Red Mages when they're both bringing roughly the same amount of raid damage and both have Raise.